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World Uncertainty Index: Global: GDP Weighted Average (WUIGLOBALWEIGHTAVG)

Q2 2025: 80,038.140
Updated: Jul 9, 2025 2:34 PM CDT
Next Release Date: Not Available
Q2 2025:  80,038.140  
Q1 2025:  48,145.700  
Q4 2024:  26,370.250  
Q3 2024:  19,263.250  
Q2 2024:  15,096.690  
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Units:

Index,
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:

Quarterly

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Notes

Source: Ahir, Hites

Source: Bloom, Nick  

Source: Furceri, Davide

Release: World Uncertainty Index  

Units:  Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Quarterly

Notes:

The World Uncertainty Index determines uncertainty using the frequency of the selfsame word in the quarterly Economist Intelligence Unit country reports.

Please see Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom and Davide Furceri (2018), 'The World Uncertainty Index' for additional explanation.

Suggested Citation:

Ahir, Hites, Bloom, Nick and Furceri, Davide, World Uncertainty Index: Global: GDP Weighted Average [WUIGLOBALWEIGHTAVG], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WUIGLOBALWEIGHTAVG, .

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